My Computer Hangs Every 2-3 Minutes

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Thank you for helping us maintain CNET's great community. If you don't have one, try booting up into the BIOS setup, and see if there is a memory test option in there, or perhaps you have a diagnostic/utility partition, as Restart your computer The above will take ~1-3 hours to run depending on the size of the disk. Nov 9, 2011 #14 PsychoDave TS Enthusiast Topic Starter Posts: 135 oh, i thought you said to do that because it would be faster than running two sticks and waiting for

Computer Hangs Every Few Minutes

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Then click on the two grey discs with the arrow in between (bottom left) and leave it to complete the operation. Any software installations, or was the computer moved/dropped? Join thousands of tech enthusiasts and participate. Computer Freezes Every Few Seconds Windows 10 You may also...

Forget Memtest and just keep using the PC as normal and see if the freezing continues. Computer Freezes For A Few Seconds Then Goes Back To Normal Let us know the Image Name for that process and we can make some suggestions. - John (my website: http://www.carrona.org/ ) **If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for If the problem comes back and it is shown in the event viewer logs for system that your hard drive is to blame again, then you might want to consider that Attached Files: DxDiag.txt File size: 35.1 KB Views: 2 Jan 30, 2012 #1 EXCellR8 The Conservative Posts: 1,835 could be a number of things including a virus or possibly even faulty

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Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/computer-randomly-freezes-and-unfreezes.172999/ Personally I tend to want to think it's something else, based on your description.. Computer Hangs Every Few Minutes It can also fix FAT32. My Computer Freezes Every 15 Minutes To make this easy, double click on the I/O Reads column header - this will sort the output by the number of I/O Reads.Try this free utility to see what threads

or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. my site I left it over night once and it was still there in the morning. Before I swap out the ram do you think I should put the main(SATA) HD back in the old computer and try again? And sometimes, my C: drive will actually disconnect. Windows Computer Freezes Every 10 Minutes

Hi Surreal_X,Try to boot into safe mode and then see whether you're getting the same problem or not.Regards,SmartGeek Hey SmartGeek, I booted into safe mode and unfortunately it's still happening. Computer Freezes After A Few Minutes Windows 7 If you get freezes with both pairs of sticks then we can look elsewhere for the problem. Proffitt Forum moderator / February 18, 2012 4:32 AM PST In reply to: Hacked, what I've tried so far...

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if that doesnt work, ill pull the hd and cd rom, put it back in the other machine and see if it works. It would be quicker and far more accurate to do the test this way and you can continue to use the PC as normal with a slightly reduced RAM capacity. Ok so my computer will randomly start locking up on me while im on the web, listening to music, watching movies...whatever. Computer Freezes For A Few Seconds Then Resumes while this doesn't seem probable if you have any antivirus program, its still a distinct possibility.check the hardware.

What should I do? Jan 31, 2012 #5 Gleave TS Rookie Topic Starter Okay I was able to locate the RAM settings and they were all set to auto, the timing was already correctly set Restarting my PC now.. http://hosting3.net/computer-freezes/computer-freezing-after-30-minutes.html Core 2 duo 3.0Ghz E8400 2GB+2GB DDR3 kingston Ram. 320GB Harddrive 1GB Nvidia 9500GT card. (Forsa) 500W Power Supply.

Back to top #13 usasma usasma Still visually handicapped (avatar is memory developed by my Dad BSOD Kernel Dump Expert 23,383 posts OFFLINE Gender:Male Location:Southeastern CT, USA Local time:10:01 PM I have been trying to pin point the problem for the last... Jan 31, 2012 #6 Gleave TS Rookie Topic Starter Hi, so after a day I can confirm that is still happening, but something else I just noticed. Then click on the View menu item and select "Select Columns" Then select I/O Reads and I/O Other (I/O Writes usually doesn't turn up much, but it won't hurt) and click